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"The Bombs" that the Special Public Prosecution has will be destroyed, announced yesterday the Ministry of Justice, announcing that the Government has decided SPO's future by placing it in the draft law on the Public Prosecution. But, what will be the procedure like for destroying the materials from the illegally wiretapped conversations, and what will happen to the copies...

Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani, has met today with the members of the State Commission for Preventing Corruption as part of the institutionalized visits that are connected with the implementations of the reforms from Plan 18. According to Osmani, SCPC is not only an important element in the prevention of crime and corruption but one of...

The Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski has sent today his request to the Parliament for an authentic interpretation of Article 22 of the Law on the Special Public Prosecution. This act followed when the expert collegium of the Public Prosecution at a meeting a week ago decided that the legal opinion of the Supreme Court for the cases under the...

The State Public Prosecutor, Ljubomir Joveski announced that Public Prosecution's expert collegium during its meeting today has decided that the legal opinion of the Supreme Court regarding the SPecial Prosecution's Office's cases is violating the legality and it will lodge a request at the Parliament in order to obtain an authentic reading of Article 22 of the Law on...

Od formiranja do danas, Specijalno javno tužilaštvo prati gomila lažnih vesti, manipulacija, dezinformacija. Posebno tri tužiteljke, koje su vodile pres-konferencije u kojima su se najavljivale istrage i optužnice, na kojima ja radilo Tužilaštvo, bile su stalna meta pokušaja lične diskreditacije napisima čiji je cilj narušavanje njihovog ugleda.  Piše: Simona Atanasova Iako je institucija koja prema anketama uživa najveće poverenje građana,...

16 civic organizations have asked from the President of the Parliament and the MPs who proposed the law, to urgently withdraw the Proposal of a Law Amending the Criminal Code from the agenda, in summary proceeding. They state that by changing the articles of the Criminal Code it will allow the cases that are led by SPO to give...

In the last few days I have received numerous threats. I'm in Budapest now and I have asked for political asylum from the Hungarian authorities. I will remain loyal to the Macedonian cause. I will never stand down, wrote Gruevski on his Facebook profile. Gruevski was sentenced to a two year prison sentence in the "Tank" case for the illegal purchase...

The Special Public prosecution has demanded that the assets must be temporary freeze as a security measure and the court has assigned temporary measures and bans for expropriation and the managing with the shares in the companies for which there is a suspicion that were used for gan with he criminal acts for which the case "Empire" was...

The Criminal Council from the Basic Court Skopje 1 has rejected the appeal of the convicted former prime minister and honorary president of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski. He had appealed the ruling and two-year prison sentence, in the SPO's "Tank" case and is now set to serve his sentence in Shuto Orizari prison. "After receiving several questions from the media, we would...

Parliament decided not to cancel MPs mandate to former prime minister and former party leader of VMRo-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski. Out of 87 present MPs, 58 have voted for taking away the mandate and 28 against. In order to cancel the mandate to an MP a two third majority is needed or a minimum of 80 MPs. The proposal for canceling the...

According to the referral document from the Criminal court, Nikola Gruevski will have to report today at the prison in Shuto Orizari, in order to serve his sentence of two years in prison because of the "Tank" case. Starting from yesterday, the criminal court began receiving single pleas by all attorneys from Gruevski's team upon the judge's decision, who...

At the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO) , a pre-trial judge from the Basic Court Skopje 1 ordered a temporary measure for freezing the assets of the political party VMRO-DPMNE, SPO announced today. With the measure, which was pronounced in the frame of the "Thaler" case, a total of 69 real estate properties were frozen, including the building...

After the recess in the Criminal Court, the release of the wiretaps in the Titanic case continued. Out of a total 1,063 "bombs", 219 have been released so far. In a conversation that took place on May 31, 2011 between Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Martin Protuger, head of the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevki's office, she tells him that the...

The mayor of municipality Pustec in Albania, Edmond Temelko, who was charged in the SPO's "Titanic" case, from the prison in Skopje in the area of Shuto Oriari he will be put under house arrest. The Criminal court in Skopje has decided to change the measure detention with house arrest, confirms the court. As the court informs, the decision...

Next week, Macedonian politicians, as well as the courts, will have a packed agenda. EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn is expected to visit a government delegation in Serbia and a joint session of the governments of Macedonia and Bulgaria. In Skopje’s Criminal Court, hearings on the cases "Bribe", "Slaps", "Trust", "Trista" and "Sopot", which are...

The Special Public Prosecution is pleased with the amendments to the Law on witness protection that soon have to be passed at the Parliament. The prosecution informed Meta agency that the proposed legal solution contains the requests and suggestions provided by SPO during the period of the making of the bill. -SPO was part of the working group that...

The trial against former intelligence officers, Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boshkovski, which was meant to take place today in a Thessaloniki court, was postponed until December 1st, reported “Televizija 24”. The hearing was postponed because the court did not have a translator. Macedonian authorities issued international warrants for Grujovski and Boskovski, following the indictment by the Special Prosecutor's Office for illegal...

The Prime MInister Zoran Zaev said today that he doesn't expect Greece to hinder the extradition of Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boshkovski, out of political reasons. There is an international warrant for their arrest and the Special Public Prosection has filed charges against them for illegal wiretapping and for destroying the surveillance systems. In conversation with journalists, Zaev stressed...

Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, hopes that the extradition proceedings for defendants, Goran Grujovski and Nikola Boshkovski will end soon and that the trial will begin soon as well. “We have been informed by the Ministry of Interior that the two defendants were detained in Thessaloniki. We do not have any more information, and in the further part of the...

Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva with investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs today searched the office of judge Vladimir Pancevski, against whom, according to Janeva, the SPO is conducting a pre-trial procedure due to abuses of the system for the allocation of court cases and for disclosing official secrets. The SPO’s search in the Criminal Court started around noon and...